Five Things You Need to Read Today

Here's your weekly update, for subscribers only, drawing your attention to five stories that are worth catching. Today, the main theme is the technological dystopia Silicon Valley is creating for us.

1. Samizdat Social Media

The Internet era was supposed to set information free, wasn't it? So why is it becoming the new era of censorship?

YouTube, which is now owned by Google--I think we're beginning to see the problem here--joined in the current anti-gun hysteria by announcing it was going to start banning instructional videos for guns on its website.

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